Emo Philips Quotes

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

The obscurest epoch is today.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

We live in a bewildering world.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

It's fun when you're confusing people.

My whole life, people have been like, 'I don't know if you're playing or serious.'

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.